Also: as though anyone lying bleeding in the street after being run over by a truck is going to have the facility to comparison shop for ambulances. It’s really an insane point to insist on, but it plays into the “freedom” rhetoric of the lower-info Republican voters.

I’m so jealous that you only pay $300.  I have a family of four and pay $1500/month.  And it sucks.  My husband had surgery and we paid out of pocket nearly $6,000 and I need an echocardiogram which is going to cost $2,000.  I fucking hate the healthcare system in this country.  M4All means that I don’t have to pay…

Yeah, gotta love how they act like health insurance is some sort of marketplace where you have actual choices from different companies instead of one monopolized one. 

I also get annoyed anytime Mayor Pete talks about “people in the Midwest” like like the Midwest is a monolith or like Elizabeth Warren can’t grasp the Midwest. He uses “the Midwest” as a code word for conservative, rural, working class, etc. in an attempt to paint Warren as an out-of-touch East Coast liberal. Well,…

Yes, ^this.^ We pay about $300/mo for a family plan, which is a pittance compared to most people. If our taxes went up but that $300/mo went back into our pockets that’s a win.

Earlier this year I woke up one morning in a blind panic, hungover, and convinced that I had left my tampon in overnight. (Too many margaritas.) I am deathly afraid of TSS so I went to the bathroom and stuck a couple fingers inside to make sure I hadn’t. I was so scared that I spent a full minute doing this and went…

Doesn’t help that the common conception of “middle class” is too broad. And everybody making over, I dunno, like $150k in household income should see a net increase in taxes larger than what they receive in additional benefits, sorry. Time to take care of the poor.

It’s not “curious” that Warren won’t say middle class taxes will be raised, because middle class expenses will go down significantly (no out-of-pocket medical expenses). Yet the minute she says taxes will be raised, even within the context of the point, the GOP will pounce on the line and use it in every attack ad…

HOW are these unwarranted roadside gropings allowed? It’s not even like people are under arrest and being booked at the station and being searched in a room designed for such procedures. Constitutional and human rights violations to the max. Gotta love a police woman who performs for the dude cops like this, she’s a…

Eleven minutes?  I’m flabbergasted. 

FUCK THIS FUCKING SHIT RIGHT HERE

“And in 2017 Texas cops searched a woman’s vagina, inserting fingers into it, for 11 minutes and found nothing”

Outside, in front of other people, accompanied by insults and insinuations. Yeah, not a ‘search’.  Dominance display. Assault.

I’ve left or lost men because I literally cannot sleep with someone else in the bed unless I’m under the influence of something powerful. Or rather, maybe I should say that since my brain won’t let me sleep alone, having a third person in the bed makes it even more impossible to easily fall and stay asleep. I’ve…

It’s also a comforting safety net. I remember waiting around for a first date on a Saturday night. I left after 20 minutes. Walking to the Metro, first date emailed me that he had to work that night and “time got away from [him] and could we reschedule?”

Ha, I was just reading today about how WeWork had lost a giant lease on a big building here in downtown Seattle. It was planned as “a vertical neighborhood where residents had communal meals” and was meant as an antidote to the Seattle Freeze.

Welp... here’s another book to add to the list. Never fails. Finish one, find three more.

Also me. I am finally just myself. I have friends I care about, family, and I don’t have to be anyone but me. I never really learned how to be me in a relationship, so I’m glad I’m old and can just not care!

I spent a good chunk of my life obsessed with finding either the right friends or partner(s) to keep me from being alone. It took an apocalyptic breakup to finally wake me up and realize that being alone isn’t just okay, but actually beneficial. All the time and energy I wasted on trying to create a social/romantic…

Very nice Rebecca. Don’t despair on the finding someone after thirty is nigh impossible. When I was 44, I met my forever man and happily married for 21 years.